HelpAge Bangladesh Country Office HelpAge has been working with affiliates and partners in Bangladesh since 1991. We set up our Bangladesh country office in 2009 to support older people and their families. We work in several different areas including [...]
HelpAge Pakistan Country Office HelpAge International has been working in Pakistan for three decades. In the beginning, activities were implemented through Pakistan Medico International (PMI) in Karachi – a network member with a focus on Ophthalmic care. HelpAge established [...]
Tsao Foundation The Tsao Foundation’s vision is of an inclusive society for all ages that optimizes opportunities in longevity. To advance a positive transformation of the ageing experience through mindset and systemic change, it pioneers approaches and demonstration models [...]
National Council of Senior Citizens Organisations Malaysia The National Council of Senior Citizens Organisations Malaysia (NACSCOM) is a not-for-profit federation of senior citizens organizations in Malaysia, representing the senior citizens community in Malaysia with 40 affiliates throughout Malaysia. Since [...]
This report examines the opportunities and challenges involved in gathering, analysing and making available to decision-makers, practitioners, and older people themselves, the high quality data needed to ensure the inclusion of older populations in global development plans and policies. [...]
Our world is ageing and, in some countries and regions, rapidly. The fact that people now live longer, in better health, and generally in better conditions than ever before is a remarkable success story. But what opportunities and challenges [...]
This paper was prepared by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as a contribution to the 50th session of the Commission on Population and Development, 3-7 April 2017, based on the report [...]
What are some of the reasons that make social protection for older people so important, economically and socially? A large number of older people are either poor or vulnerable to sudden change, and they enter into retirement [...]
In this edition, we feature a recent study on income security and an interview with Dr Bazlul Haque Khondker, an expert economist from Bangladesh discussing social protection. We also report meetings to push forward universal pension schemes in Myanmar [...]
Champu Chaudary, 65, a resident of Chaumala village in Kailali District, Nepal, is an active member of the Chaumala lder people's association (OPA) since its establishment in late 2011. Years of feeling neglected and mistreated by his son and [...]
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